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THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NES S
Juné, 1942
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"Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath Smitten, and he will bind us up" (Hos. 6:1).
America is my beloved mother. Every crimson drop of blood in #y l|od y (gai-f ries affection for this land.» It gavA me ah education that would have been de nied me, a RussiaAJew.^in? any o't he r country jii thé world. It gave ma Christ pná ■ His salvation. It pro -1 vieles for me, for ;liiÿ wlfeii for my babies, the privilege "of l i v i ng \ unashamed,wn** afraid. My grateful heart cries out cofiitinuallÿ^-^dd ! .bless America! God give■ î Mÿ 'hoj^e^t^e';'bo^e':of; ; my poor pe p> j>| e Israël— . lies, under God. in the vic- .Aprÿÿlp'IÎK;t|ie:^Alliesl ^fvt$r^ victory, *Vfith all the ferVof*: of my beipg i would yearn, f -1 would work, t; would pray ■ i soon, if Jt jpieáse Him $dtor
S HE VERY righteousness of God required that the scourge of red war should be visited upon the earth. T h i s e v i l , God-forgetting, world-conforming, si'n-i n v é n t i h g , Bible-disregarding generation was to face its sins, to acknowledge its utter insufficiency, ¿to realize the lordship of Jehovah. Science was. to learn thè bitter lesson that the classroom could hot mold character, that the labora tory could not bring in the golden age, that -invention and discovery would but lend tools of destruction to bes tiality and inhumanity. You do not agree with me? You say I have no authority for my conten tions? How read you the Word? How understand you God’s dealings with the children of Israel? Have you for gotten thè message of the Book of Judges? Again and again the Lord permitted, even raised up, thè enemies of Judah and Israel. to overwhelm those lands with théir fierce depreda tions when the people sinned against Him. Why the :Babylonian captivity? Why the terrible, bloody destruction of Jerusalem, if they were not to teach the Jews the lesson of humility, of penitence, of obedience? History’s Lesson Leave the Bible. Leaf the pages of history, which some one has well called “His story.” Do not its war- indicted, blood-written records ' of inan’s inhumanity to man teach the same message, that God will not hold scatheless that nation, those nations, who persist in turning their unbeliev ing backs upon Him? Do not the blood-soaked fields of the European Continent, fertilized through these [ The message appearing on these pages was one given by Dr. Appelman, a former attor ney, in a series of evangelistic meetings he recently conducted in the Church of the Open Door, Los Angeles, Calif.-— E dito *.]
centuries with the spoiling bodies of the choicest and best of every one of its nations’ finest manhood, reveal plainly the displeasure o f' God? No, beloved, my prayer is that God may open America’s eyes, unlock America’s minds to the howling chorus of war- made warning, that although Jeho vah’s patience is lasting, it is not everlasting. You demand proof? Follow me then as I press upon your hearts and minds God’s declaration: “Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the in habitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By shearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish. . . . As they were in creased, so they sinned against ’ me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. . . . -Give ye. ear, . . . for judgment is toward you. . . . I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: . in their affliction they will seek me early” (Hos. 4:1 to 5:i5). The Spirit spoke by the prophet over twenty-five hundred years ago, yet his message is frighteningly timely. So think with me along these three im portant lines: The Punishment Vis ited; The Penitence Required; The Prosperity Promised. The Punishment Yisited Why this world-wide terror? Why Hitler? Why Japan? Why the bombs
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